Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-09
wAsHINGToN GOSSIP.

WARRINGTON GOSSIP.
In the general Land Office at Wash
ington the whole number of land entries of
all kinds.pending March 10, 1887, was lie, 1893;
received during the week 9,0GS; examined
and recommended for patents for the week
ending March 26, 30S contests pending
March 10, S45; remaining undecided, S,6OS:
private land claims pending at beginning of
the week. IL. donation claims pending, l73.
Some cases dating from the foundation of
the government are still pending; that is,
action can be taken on them In Louisiana
alone the number of confirmed private
claims and donations is estimated at $1,000,
OF which some LOO have received final
action Ill the land Office. The number of
Land grant railroads 70, involving 197, 2O3,-
SO7 acres; the number of land grant wagon
roads T. involving 3,276,5S3 acres: acres of
and selected under the several swamp
land grants since 1849 to March rs. 1887, IA,
44, 426 acres; patents to the several states
under the swamp land acts including in
demnlty patents to March 26, 1887, Sc, 74Q,
s49; amount Of indemnity for money for
swamp lauds allowed the several states to
March rs, 1887, Sl,4yS,0 32; number of acres
Indemnity certificates, to March 26, 1887,
73O,664.
Joseph H. Bradley, a noted lawyer
of Washington, D. c., died on the 3rd, aged
81 years He was counsel for Mrs. Surrat,
and for conduct during the Lincoln assassi.
nation trials was disbarred by the presiding
Judge on the charge of disloyalty, but was
restored six years later. An episode in his
career was his marriage with Mary Harris,
a treasury clerk, who shot and killed
another treasury clerk named Burrows,
who, under promise of marriage, conspired
her ruin. Bradley secured the acquital of
his client, and afterward married her.
April l, President Cleveland APP
pointed Martin V. Montgomery, of
Michigan, to be associate Justice of the
supreme court Of the District of Columbia,
to succeed Justice Macarthur, retired Mr.
montgomery is resident Of Lansing, Mich,
and entered political life in 1870, | icing
elected to the state legislature as a Demo-
GRAFT. He was a delegate to the St. Louis
national convention in 1876, and his appoint
ment as commissioner Of patents was one of
the first of Importance made by President
Cleveland 4. F.. lis:
The Interstate Commere Commits
sion met at Washington, March 81 and took
the oath Of office: Upon motion of Col. Nor
1lson, Judge Cooley was unanimously
chosen chairman of the Commission. The
commissioners called upon President CIeve-
land at the White House, The organization
will be completed April 1, by the selection of
secretary 1t is said that at an early day
the commission will decide upon the long
and short haul provision of the act as it ap-
plies to the railroads east of the Mississippi
river, south of the Ohio and west of the Po-
tOmac
Messrs. Fairchild and Maynard, the
newly appointed Secretary and Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury held an i'm
promptu reception, Friday afternoon More
than 10 treasury employees called to ex-
tend congratulations. kilograms OF notes
OF congratulation were received from mem
bers OF the cabinet from congressman and
from number of prominent public men of
New YOrk state and elsewhere. Telegrams
announced that Cazenovia and Bovina, the
homes OF the new appointees were in a
state OF jubilee. Both officials received
handsome floral tributes.
There can be no doubt that the wife
of Secretary Fairchild will make her mark
in Washington society. She is most
charming and cultivated woman of retiring
manners and great dignity of character, and
one whom it will be a pleasure to meet as
the first lady of the cabinet.
The reports that reach this side make
it seem as if x-Secretary Manning had gone
abroad to die A statement made April LIST,
says that the voyage did him no good and
that he is even worse than when he arrived
in England. His friends have little hope of
his recovery.
The President has turned over to
the Secretary Of the Treasury an anonymo Gus
letter and Enclosure of $500, which he
received from some person in BROOKLYN.
N. CO. 1,no =,
to the government for customs duties.
Pending the selection of permanent
offices for the use of the Interstate commerce
commission temporary quarters have been
secured with the United States geological
survey in the Hoe building.
It is believed at Washington that
/. 81, Maynard. of New ork, will be made
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, to
succeed Mr.. Jordan.
The report Of Prof. Wiley, chemist
of the agricultural department., on the adj
liberation Of butter, will soon be published.
The coinage Of the minis during the
month of March was s5,195, COG, of which
%, w, $50 was in standard silver dollars.
zen. Sheridan has returned from
his western trip having established a
military post atDenver, Colorado.
President Cleveland has. been hon
ored by having, as far as heard from, 200
boys named after him.
THE OLD WORLD.
In the House of Commons Friday
night, w. II. Smith, first lord of the
treasury, suggested thatif the Irish crimes
bill be read for the first time that night,
the second reading could be taken up
Tuesday. Then there would be an interval
OF a week between the reading and going
INTO committee. It was the imperative
duty OF the government to insist that the
house come to an early decision on the
of the bill. Referring to The
land bill, he said that it was of vital i'm
portance, and that the government would
use every effort to make the measure a law.
A motion for cloture was carried by 361 to